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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the prison located?
(a) In a lake in a valley.
(b) On a mountaintop.
(c) Inside a cavern.
(d) In the middle of the town.

2. Besides blades, what does Rodion's penknife have?
(a) A nail file.
(b) A corkscrew.
(c) A screw driver.
(d) A spoon.

3. What is the weather like the day that Cincinnatus receives the letter?
(a) Snowy.
(b) Overcast.
(c) Windy.
(d) Sunny.

4. What additional news does Cincinnatus get at the same time?
(a) He will be given an extra daily dessert.
(b) He will be allowed to meet with his wife.
(c) He will be moved to a roomier cell.
(d) He will be allowed to choose the time of his execution.

5. What does Pierre tell Cincinnatus that they will do together?
(a) Find a path to spiritual well-being.
(b) Take over the guard towers.
(c) Walk up the execution scaffold.
(d) Walk out of the prison to freedom.

6. What was unusual about Cincinnatus' sentence?
(a) The sentence was pronounced in a coded phrase.
(b) The sentences was pronounced in a foreign language.
(c) The sentence was pronounced backwards.
(d) The sentence was pronounced three times in repetion.

7. What is the director doing when Rodion brings Cincinnatus back to his cell from the new prisoner's cell?
(a) Bringing the new prisoner a five-course meal.
(b) Looking through the peephole in the new prisoner's door.
(c) Whistling and dancing around the hallway.
(d) Painting the new prisoner's door with red paint.

8. What does Cincinnatus do when he undresses at the end of his second day in prison?
(a) He puts his clothes in the bed to form a second version of him.
(b) He throws his clothes out the window.
(c) He redresses and undresses in several different outfits, changing personality.
(d) He continues undressing and takes apart his entire body.

9. What does Pierre say was the main evidence against him?
(a) A glove he left behind.
(b) A drawing with his marks on it.
(c) A pair of broken glasses.
(d) A notepad with notes from a phone call on it.

10. What does the new prisoner look like?
(a) He is average in every way.
(b) He is large and muscular.
(c) He is small and fat.
(d) He is tall and thin.

11. Who finds what the lawyer was looking for at the beginning of his meeting with Cincinnatus?
(a) Cincinnatus.
(b) The prison guard.
(c) The lawyer.
(d) The prison director.

12. Who does Emmie tease during Marthe's visit?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Marthe.
(c) The grandfather.
(d) Diomedon.

13. How long does the letter say Cincinnatus will have to wait for the interview?
(a) One month.
(b) One day.
(c) One week.
(d) Four days.

14. How does the judge deliver Cincinnatus' sentence?
(a) He puts up a sign over the window.
(b) He whispers it in Cincinnatus' ear.
(c) He shouts it out to the courtroom.
(d) He writes it on a piece of paper and gives it to Cincinnatus' attorney.

15. When does Pierre say that prison escapes happen?
(a) When you are unjustly accused.
(b) Only in fairy tales.
(c) When the guards are lax.
(d) Only at night.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cincinnatus ask to turn off the lights before he goes to bed?

2. What does Cincinnatus start doing in his cell after Emmie's visit?

3. What is Marthe holding when she meets with Cincinnaus?

4. What is Cincinnatus's lawyer looking for when he visits Cincinnatus?

5. What does Cincinnatus see in the morning papers?

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